OUTRAGEOUS: Ohio High School Student Suspended For Staying In Class During Leftist Gun Walkout

I guess it’s not surprising given that we live in a country where it’s now a faux pas to NOT help illegal immigrants. But it’s still WRONG!

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An apolitical Ohio high school student received a suspension this week for remaining seated quietly in his classroom as about half of his peers participated in a leftist-choreographed march for gun control, and the other non-protesting half were “rounded up in the building” like cattle and marched to a “study hall,” according to The Independent (Massillon).

Stunningly, no other student received a suspension, including the indoctrinated ones who marched onto local streets Tuesday on behalf of the Democrat Party’s mission to enact draconian gun laws on all firearm owners.

The student, Jacob Shoemaker, told The Independent that he had simply sought to remain apolitical about the whole matter:

Jacob Shoemaker felt as though he would be making a political statement about guns by walking outside with those students, his father said, but he’d also be making one if he stayed in and allowed himself to be sent to wherever the non-protesters were being rounded up in the building. Being “middle of the road” politically, he didn’t want to make either statement, Shoemaker said.

Jacob told his father on Tuesday night that he felt like other students and, to some extent, school officials were pressuring him. Each side was judging the other.

″’The biggest problem, Dad, is that there shouldn’t be politics in the classroom… I may just sit in my seat. As far as I’m concerned, that’s the least intrusive of the choices I’ve been given,‴ Jacob said, according to his father. The boy also told him that he was far from the only student who felt that way.

For sticking to his principles, Shoemaker received an out-of-school suspension

“Student refused to follow instructions after being warned repeatedly by several administrators. Student not permitted on school property 24 hours,” his suspension notice reportedly read.

His father wasn’t exactly thrilled about this: “He stayed in the classroom, where he was supposed to be in the first place. It’s kind of ironic,” he said.

You think?!

To be clear, Shoemaker was not suspended for not participating in the march, as some have falsely reported. But this fact doesn’t make what happened to him any less just, as noted by Brandon Morse of RedState.

He pointed eout that the school’s desire “to relocate those who wouldn’t participate in the protest to a single location … exposes those who wouldn’t participate more easily. Remaining in class would have been the better option and the idea that the school punished a student for remaining in class where he would be considered outside of safe bounds is ridiculous.”

Agreed.

There used to be a time in America when students who walked out of class were punished. There likewise used to be a time when illegal immigrants, drug dealers and terrorists were viewed with disdain. Sadly, times have changed, and not for the better.

We now live in a twisted world where principles, facts and basic decency mean nothing. And maybe I’m just a jaded schmuck, but it feels to me like the downward spiral has only just begun.

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